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“Seismic Analysis of Building Using Staad-Pro”

Prof. Komal S. Meshram1, Samiksha Kumbhare2,Sagar Thakur3,Diksha Mate4,
Amit Moundekar5, Raksha Waghmare6.
1
Asst. Professors, Dept. of Civil Engineering, M.I.E.T. SHAHAPUR, BHANDARA, INDIA 441906
2,3,4,5,6,
B.E. Department of Civil Engineering, M.I.E.T. Shahapur, Bhandara, India.

Abstract-The earthquake is a nature phenomenon which Multistoried buildings are designed for the basic
can generate the most destructive forces on structure. need of people. These buildings are the shelter for
Therefore, building should be safe for lives by proper all the human beings and help grown up the
design and detailing of structural members in order to infrastructure to the city. So, we need a residential
have a ductile form a failure, so structure in wellbeing
building to serve the people. The main object of the
against seismic power of multistoried working. There is
need of seismic examination study and planning to project is to modify the general design of multi
earthquake protection structure. The goal of seismic storied building with seismic effect. Seismology is
resistance construction is to erect structures that fare the study of vibration of earth mainly caused by
better during seismic activity than their conventional earthquakes and seismic waves that move through
counterparts. The project report comprises of seismic and around the earth. A seismic wave causesthe
analysis and design of G+7 RCC building. A G+7 sudden breaking of rock within the earth or an
storied structure for the seismic investigation and it is explosion. They are the energy in the form of
situated in zone-II district in India. The present project waves that travels through the beneath of earth and
deals with seismic analysis of multistoried residential is recorded on seismographs. The study of these
building G+7. The dead load and live load applied and
waves by various techniques, understanding there
design for beam, column, slab and footing are obtained.
Total structure was analyzed by computer by using nature and various physical processes that generate
STAAD-PRO software. Various software now-a-day are there from the major part of the seismology. A
available & STAAD-PRO is most common used for seismic design of high-rise building has assumed
analysis and designing of a building by considering the considerable important in recent times. In
earthquake forces and to review & study the behavior of traditional method adopted based on fundamental
multistoried building by Equivalent Static Lateral Force mode of the structure and distribution of earthquake
Method. forces as static forces at various stories may be
adequate for structure of small height subjected to
earthquake of very low intensity but as the number
Key-Words: STAAD-Pro, base Shear Equivalent, of the stories increases the seismic design demand
load, assign, property, definition, seismic analysis, more rigorous.
design, earthquake behavior, modeling, seismic
1.1 Stages in Structural Design
resistance
Each components of building follows their own
1. INTRODUCTION specific path from its initiation to ultimate design as
follows:
Day-by-day increase in population growth in  Structural Planning of building
cities of India for several acceptable reasons and  Applied load calculations
deficiency of land area so that there is a  Structural analysis of building
requirement of design and seismic analysis of  As per analysis design of building
multistoried building before construction work  Detailing and drawing of structural
starts. members
 Preparation of schedule

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1.2 Introduction to STAAD-Pro  Study of reactions, shear forces, bending

moment, seismic forces and node
Our paper involves analysis and design of displacement during assigning process and
multistoried (7-story) using a worldwide most restrained them by applyingsuitable
common used designing software STAAD-Pro. property and material and again assigning.
i. Advantages of STAAD-Pro:
3. METHODOLOGY
 Confirmation with Indian standard Codes,
 Versatile nature of solving any type of Step-1: Modeling:
problem,
 Easy to use interface, With respect to the consideration of type of
 Accuracy of the solution. structure modeling has been done using Geometry
and Structural Wizard tool.
ii. Features:
Step-2: Generation of Nodal Point:
 STAAD-Pro features a user interface,
visualization tools, powerful analysis and As per the planning with respect to the positioning
design appliance with advanced limited of column in building, their respective nodal point
element and dynamic analysis efficiency. has been created on that model.
 From model generation, analysis and
design to output visualization and result Step-3: Property Definition:
verification, STAAD-Pro is the specialist’s
best choice forconcrete, steel, aluminum, Using General-Property command define the
timber and cold-formed steel design of low property as per size requirement to the respective
and high-raised multistoried buildings, building on STAAD-Pro. So, beam and columns
culverts, petrochemical plants, tunnels, have been generated after assigning to selected
bridge, piles and much more. beam and columns.

1.3 Getting Started Step-4: Create and Assign Support & Member
Property:
In this paper, methodology of structural analysis
and design on STAAD-Pro and step by step After column definition at supports have been
procedure of has been explained with the help of provided as fixed below each column by selecting
diagrams. Further, load calculations have been columns using Node Curser and its cross-section
explained in depth/thickness and manual seismic assigning based on load calculations and property
load calculations have also been included in this definition.
paper. Step-5:3-DRendering:
2. OBJECTIVES After assigning the member property to structure
the 3-D view of the structure can be shown using #-
 The main objective is to estimate and check D Rendering command.
seismic response of building and analyze &
design it on that basis using STAAD-Pro Step-6: Load Assignment:
software.
 Design and seismic analysis of multistoried i. Dead load
building before construction work using
STAAD-Pro Software using. The dead load contains of the weight of walls,
 Modeling of 7-storey building and partitions floor finishes, false ceilings, floors and
application of different loadsonSTAAD- the other permanent standing construction in the
Pro, load calculations due to different buildings. The dead load loads are estimated from
loading combinations, analysis and design the dimensions of various members of building and
of structure on STAAD-Pro. their unit weights. The unit weights of plain
concrete and reinforced concrete taken as

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25kN/m3.The unit weight of masonry taken as Equivalent Static Lateral Force Method of analysis
19kN/m3. As per IS:1893 (Part 1)-2016, the dead is chosen for the following structure. This approach
load have been assigned on the basis of member defines a series of forces acting on the building to
load, floor load, self-weight of the beams exhibit the effect of earthquake vibrations, defined
definition. by a seismic design response spectrum. It is
considering that the building vibrates in its
ii. Live Load fundamental mode. For this to be true, the building
must be low-rise and must not twist meaningfully
As per IS:875 (part 2)-1987, live load 2kN/m has when the ground moves. There is four seismic zone
been assigned to the members. divided in India are given below categorizing every
iii. Seismic Load zone as zone I, II, III and IV. For this seismic
analysis we are considering zone II.
After defining the seismic load as per requirement
of IS: 1893 (Part 1): 2016, the seismic load has
been assigned with respect to +X, -X, +Z, and –Z
directions with their respective appropriate seismic
factor.

iv. Load combination

Required load combinations cases for seismic

analysis have been assigned to the model based on
specified loading combinations provided in the
Indian standard CODES that are also available in
STADD-Pro.

Step-7:Structural analysis on STADD-Pro.

After adding Analysis/Print, using Run Analysis

Command, the structure is analyzed and detailed
study of forces and bending moment is undertaken
through the Post processing mode to recognize their
shear forces, bending moment diagrams to it check
is safe or not.

Step-11: Design of Structure on STADD-Pro

The design is undertaken as per IS 456:2000 for 4.1 EQUIVALENT STATIC LATERAL
RCC. M25 concrete and Fe415 is used as design FORCE METHOD
parameters. Percentage steel of 3% has been
Step 1: Seismic Weight of Building (Manual
specified as per IS Code standards and the design
parameters have been assigned to respective every Calculations)
beam and column to get the final design.
Load Calculation:
Step-12:Output Generation. Dead load, Live load, Seismic load and Wind load
are calculated and applied into STADD-Pro model
After that output file is generated which containing as give below:
the structural design of each individual beam and
column member of structure.
Deal Load-
4. MANUAL SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF
G+7 BUILDING (AS PER IS 1893 i. Dead load due to self wt. of slab :
(PART 1) : 2016

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Reinforced concrete unit weight =25kN/m3 Slab =Sum of DL of each story

Thickness =165mm
Deal load due to Slab = 25xBxD =5205.75+8515.25+8515.25+8515.25+8515.25+85
= 25 x 20 x 0.165x25 15.25+8515.25
= 2062.5kN
=56297.25kN
ii. Dead Load due to wall :
Unit weight of brick masonry = 19KN/m3
Thickness of wall = 230 mm Step 2: Time Period
Height of wall = 3m
Dead load of wall = (3x5x.23 x 30 x 19) + The fundamental natural period of a vibration
(3x4x0.23x30x19)
= 3540kN (Ta), in seconds, of a moment resisting frame
Wall load on top floor = 1770kN building without bricks infill panels may be
estimated by the empirical expression.
iii. Dead Load due to Beam :
Reinforced concrete unit weight = 25KN/m3 0.09ℎ
Ta=
Depth of the beam = 350mm √𝑑
Width of the beam =300mm
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Slab depth = 165mm = 0.09 ∗ √20 = 0.422 sec.
Dead Load of Beam= 6 x (25x0.35x0.3x20) +
6 x (25x0.35x0.3x25)
= 708.75KN/m
Where h is the height of the building, in
iv. Dead Load due to Column :
Size of Columns : meters.
Column Group 1 : 750 X 750 mm
Column Group 2 : 600 X 600 mm Step 3: Determination of Design Base Shear
Column Group 3 : 700 X 650 mm
Dead Load due to column = 3x(0.75x0.75x25)x16 Design seismic base shear, VB =Ah W
+3x(0.6x0.6x25)x 4 + 3x(0.7x0.65x25)x16
𝑍 𝑆𝑎 0.1
= 1329kN ∗ 2.5
2 𝑔 2
𝐴ℎ = 𝑅 = 3 = 0.041
Imposed Load (Live Load)-
𝐼 1
Live Load = 25% of (7xBxD)
= 0.25x(7x20x25)
= 875kN 𝑺𝒂
For Ta=0.422 , 𝒈 = 𝟐. 𝟓, as per Clause-6.4; IS
Total Dead Load on each story: 1893(Part 1):2016
Total DL on 1 to 6 story
=2062.5+3540+708.75+1329+875 Where,
= 8515.25kN
Ah= Design horizontal seismic coefficient
Total DL on Roof
= 2062.5+3540+708.75+664.5+1770 Z=0.1; seismic zone factor given in Table-3 for
=5205.75kN
zone II

Seismicweight of building (W)

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Step 4: Vertical Distribution of Base Shear

The design base shear (VB) computed shall be

distributed along the height of the building as
per the expression,

𝑊𝑖ℎ𝑖 2
Qi= VB 𝑛
𝑖=1
𝑊𝑖ℎ𝑖 2
I=1; Importance factor given in IS 1893 (part1-
5) for the corresponding structures; when not Where,
specified, the minimum value of I shall be,
Qi= Design lateral forces at floor i,
a) 1.5 for critical and lifeline structure,
Wi = Seismic weights of the floor i,
b) 1.2 for business continuity structures,
c) 1.0 for the rest. hi = height of the floor, measured from
base, and
R=3; response reduction factor given in IS
1893 (Table-9) for the corresponding n = Number of stories.
structures.
𝑆𝑎
= The design acceleration coefficient considered
𝑔
as per Indian Standards for design, as per IS 1893
(Part 1): 2016. Floor Wi hi Wi hi2 Qi Shear
Force
(in kN) (in (in kN)
m)

7 5205.75 21 2295.73 580.93 580.93

6 8515.25 18 2758.94 698.15 1279.08

5 8515.25 15 1915.93 484.82 1763.9

4 8515.25 12 1226.19 310.28 2074.18

3 8515.25 9 689.73 174.53 2248.71

2 8515.25 6 306.55 77.57 2326.28

1 8515.25 3 76.637 19.39 2345.67

∑= 9269.7
Design seismic base shear,

VB =0.0416x56297.25

= 2345.71kN
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 Grade of Steel: FE415

The STADD-Pro plan and model for the

considered G+7 building is shown below.
 The building plan is of size 20m x 25m.
 Height of the building (h) = 21 m Width of
the building (dx) = 25 m
 Width of the building (dz) = 20 m

Fig: Shear Force Diagram

4.2 Project Statement

The building is designed for the following

parameters:

 Seismic Zone – II

 Type of the soil: Medium soil.

Fig: STADD Plan
 Response Reduction factor(R) = 3 for
OMRC.

 Floor Height = 3m

 No. Of storey = 7 nos.

 External thickness of wall = 230mm

 Internal thickness of wall = 230mm

 Beam Size: 350x300 mm

Fig: STAAD Model
 Column Size:
Group-1= 750x750mm; (Total Nos. = 16)
Group-2= 600x600 mm; (Total Nos. = 4)
Group-3= 700x650 mm; (Total Nos. = 16)

 Slab Thickness: 165mm

 Live Load: 2KN/m2

 Earthquake Load = IS: 1893-2016

 Grade of Concrete: M25

Fig: Axial Force

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calculated. The earthquake force acting on the

structure is represented below.

Fig: Bending

Fig: Reactions

Fig: Displacement

Fig: Shear-Z
4.4 STAAD-Pro SEISMIC ANALYSIS

Ta = 0.73574 sec.,
𝑆𝑎
= 1.848.
𝑔
Load Factor =1,
Ah=0.0308,
Total Weight=53052.25kN,
VB= 1634.43kN

STAAD-Pro model Load to make the structure

seismic force resistant, the fundamental period of
the building while vibration should be calculated
and procure as input to STADD-Pro for seismic
analysis. The considered building is in zone II.
These values are derived as input to the seismic
definition in STADD-Pro and seismic forces are
Fig: Shear-Y
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Structures” by, Eastern Economy Edition.
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A.B., Sonawane, H.P., Jain, I.M., (2016). “Analysis
and Design of G+19 Storey Building Using Staad-
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of Engineering & Technology, Navi Mumbai,
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F

9. Murthy C.V.R, Learning earthquake design.

Fig: Torsion

5. CONCLUSION

 Design Base Shear (Manually)

= 2345.71 KN
 Design Base Shear (STAAD Pro)
= 1634.43 KN
 The G+7 residential building has been
analyzed and deigned using STADD. Pro.
 Seismic forces have been considered and
the structure is designed as an earthquake
resistant structure.
 To conclude, STADD. Pro is versatile
software having the ability to determine the
reinforcement required for any concrete
section based on its loading and determine
the nodal deflections against lateral forces.
 It experiences static as well as dynamic
analysis of the structure and gives accurate
results which are required. The following
points have been obtained at the end of the
design.

REFERENCES

1. IS-875(PART-1) : 1987 Indian Std. Code Of Practice

For Design Loads
2. IS-1893(Part 1): “Earthquake Resisting Design of
Structures”.
3. IS: 875 (Part 2): 1987 “Imposed Loads”.
4. STAADPRO manual.

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